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I was sitting impatiently in the corner of the garage, watching Yusei work and tapping my foot in mid-air since it was the one crossed over my other leg. I had not heard Yusei speak since I had the dream about his mom being my old babysitter, and his lack of self-motivation to find her was really getting on my nerves. If I had found out that my mother was still (impossibly) alive, I would have been doing everything I could to find her. As I thought of my mother, I felt the familiar wrench at my heart of grief, and my heart leapt up into my throat, almost as if it was trying to escape the terrible emotion. I held my breath, waiting for it to pass, and I ceased all motion for the moment as my eyes threatened to water. I had no mother or father, and here Yusei was- doing nothing to find his own.

"Yusei!" I looked up at the door as a young boy-child with green hair bounded through it excitedly, pulling along a girl who could only ever be his twin sister, because she looked exactly like him. I swallowed down my emotions painfully and smiled a watery smile as Yusei looked up with a true one.

"Rua, Ruka." He greeted as the boy let go of his sister's hand, jumped down the stairs and began to excitedly pelt him with questions. But the girl, she stood silently at the top of the stairs and she looked at me, and we locked eyes. I felt the draw almost instantly, as everything around me started to fade away, and I found myself sitting on my knees in the middle of the floor with the young girl standing in front of me. She smiled at me.

"My name is Ruka." She spoke, and her voice echoed strangely, even though her voice was so soft. I managed to smile a little at her; even though- for the first time in my life- I was afraid of what the girl would see about me.

"I am Mai." I said, and I saw a happy light in Ruka's eyes as she reached for my shoulders and rested her forehead against mine.

I saw her life in passing, a quiet life without parents in the topmost floor of Tops, with only her brother and the occasional friend coming over to keep them company. I saw how it was when their parents came home, and for a moment, I was jealous, but I made that feeling die. I saw that she had a long, happy life ahead of her with her brother, the two of them eventually getting married and living without each other, but only a floor away from each other, since they would never be able to bear being too far away from each other. Her ability was to see into and enter the world of Duel Monster Spirits, and her brother's was to bring her back. So each twin was half a Signer, and Ruka bore the mark.

Then it was my turn to be seen.

I didn't want her to see into my soul, for she was very young and innocent, and what she would see in my past would leave a scar on her that would be there forever. Then it was over, and I felt Ruka pushing away from me, and I opened my eyes to see her looking at me with a look that had distraught, fear and disgust all in one. Though I could feel that those emotions weren't directed at me. I could see the tears start up in her eyes, and I held both her hands in one of mine and raised a hand to gently wipe away the coming tears. Ruka was shaking.

"How- how could they do that to you?!" She exclaimed, tears starting to spill over, and I understood. She had seen everything, and I pushed myself up to kneeling, and I held her in my arms as she cried, rubbing her back as my mother had used to do with me when I had been upset.

"You saw my past, didn't you?" I whispered sadly into her ear, and she nodded, unable to speak. I then saw her brother walking carefully towards us, with worry in his eyes. When he saw me looking at him, he asked me silently if he could, and I nodded, so he ran over and hugged us both to give his sister the comfort she needed. I smiled sadly. If only my brother had been like that.

I heard heavier footsteps walking toward us, and I looked up as Yusei walked over and kneeled across from me. His eyes weren't so intense now, just- wanting to know.

"What did she see?" He asked me quietly, almost emotionlessly. I looked at him sadly.

"What a girl her age should never have to see." I told him, and his eyes darkened with concern, and some other emotion I couldn't identify, before he nodded and stood up, returning to his bike. I looked after him for a moment, but then I just focused on comforting the little girl in my arms, who needed me more than Yusei did.

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When I returned to the engine, I didn't work on it, because I was thinking too intensely to focus on the machine. 'What a girl her age should never have to see…' I had seen Ruka and Mai do the same thing to each other as I had felt Mai do to me, and then I saw Ruka burst into tears after seeing what could only have been Mai's past or future, or something of that nature. 'What a girl her age should never have to see…' In a way, I could believe it, but it was unimaginable to me. I thought that I had had a hard life, but my gut feelings were telling me that what Ruka had seen had been much worse than what I had been through, if not exactly the same on some levels. I just never thought that a woman would have to go through those same pains. I blinked and stared at the same part of the engine as I tried to dissect what she said and what it meant.

I thought back to how the two of us had first met, when she told me that my mom was still alive. I hadn't known that she was there, and when Jack had surprised her by grabbing onto her when she backed up into him, she had been ready to fight. I frowned. She had only reacted that way because Jack had grabbed her, and it had probably triggered an automatic response from her instincts because she had reacted like that. I tried to think of other times when she reacted like that, but I could only think of times when she was around strange guys she didn't know. Boys she was alright with, I noticed as I looked at her over my shoulder again, watching her cuddle both Ruka and Rua. So she had something against men, and looking back on how she had been ready to fight that one time- it wasn't good.